Five held in two gambling raids, seized Rs 43,000 in Goa

Panaji Five persons have arrested by the police and seized over Rs 43000 in two separate gambling raids on Wednesday The five accused were nabbed by Goa Crime Branch while they were accepting gambling bids said Superintendent of Police SP Pankaj Kumar SinghThree accused identified as Rajesh 44 Sagar 41 and Sandeep 38 were arrested in the first raid conducted at Old bus stand Ponda Cash worth Rs 15200 and gambling articles were recovered from them Singh saidAlso Read Six held in Goa for gamblingSingh added The second raid was conducted near the fish market in Nagoa and Salcete where two accused Manoranjan Gill 38 and Francis Fernandes 59 were nabbed Along with gambling articles Rs 28120 was recovered from themFurther investigation is underwayWith inputs from ANITop five news stories of the dayDrunken goons thrash Alt Balajis film crew Mumbai cops extort Rs 50000Four drunk goons allegedly assaulted the crew of Alt Balajis upcoming show Fixxer on Ghodbunder Road on Wednesday The cast mdash Mahie Gill Tigmanshu Dhulia Shabbir Ahluwalia and Karishma Sharma mdash escaped but director of photography Santosh Thundiyil required six stitches to his head while director Soham Shah was beaten so badly he had convulsions Read full storyMumbai Forensic lab returns Rajesh Marus fingers which were stuck in MRI machineThe family of Rajesh Maru who died in a freak accident in the MRI room of Nair Hospital in January 2018 has received his fingers that were stuck in the machine for a few days and later kept at Kalina Forensic Library for almost 18 months The 32yearold died after being sucked into the MRI machine while he was helping an ailing relative Read full storyMumbai Crime Jilted lover burns girls fathers bike in VasaiThe Vasai Manikpur police on Wednesday arrested a 22yearold for allegedly setting three bikes on fire The bikes were parked near Krishna Township in Vasai East when the incident recorded in a CCTV camera nearby took place The video footage shows a man wearing a windcheater and shorts walking into the residential complex and setting one bike parked between two others on fire by removing the petrol tube of the bike He fled the spot immediately after Read full storyMumbai Rains No need to worry water reserve stock will last till July 31 says BMCThere will not be additional water cut in the city as reserve stock has enough water to last till July 31 civic officials have said The assurance comes even as water level in the lakes are depleting due to the delay in monsoon arrival in the state Read full storyMumbai Prepare to cough up Rs 10000 fine for illegal parking from July 7Is the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC looking at making parking an additional source of revenue or is it just aiming at decongesting roads by putting an end to the illegal parking menace Whatever it might be from July 7 the civic body doesnt want vehicles parked on roads After increasing parking charges it now plans to identify roads in a 1km radius of public parking lots and mark them as noparking zones People found parking in these areas would be fined anything between Rs 1000 and Rs 10000 and in case of a repeat offence vehicles would be towed away Noparking boards would also be put up on arterial roads Read full storyCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates